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Copyright (2002) Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers. This paper was published in Solid State Lighting II : Proceedings of SPIE and is made available as an electronic reprint (preprint) with permission of SPIE. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, duplication of any material in this paper for a fee or for commercial purposes, or modification of the content of the paper are prohibited. Color Rendering Properties of LED Light Sources Nadarajah Narendran and Lei Deng Lighting Research Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 Color Rendering Properties of LED Light Sources Nadarajah Narendran * and Lei Deng Lighting Research Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 ABSTRACT A laboratory human factors experiment was conducted to understand the color rendering properties of various LED-based reading lights. Human subjects rated their preference for a given scene illuminated by a test light source compared to an identical scene illuminated by a reference light source. In another experiment the same subjects viewed and rated the scenes individually when illuminated by a test light source. LED-based light sources were preferred more than halogen and incandescent light sources for overall color appearance. However, phosphor-based white LED light sources were rated poor for the appearance of human skin tones. This study shows that RGB mix white LED light sources have the best overall characteristics to be used as reading or task lights. This study has shown that CRI has no